In his December 2001 interview with Brian Allen and Dustin Peters, Leroy Khontopp offers his memories of World War II. Khontopp served in the U.S. Navy from 1939 to 1945, training in the United States and serving in the Pacific Theater on a naval...

Miners standing near the headframe at a mine near Pearl, Gem County, ID, ca. 1899. Note the miners candlesticks and candles in some of the miners hands. Candles were used for lighting underground before the invention of the carbide light.

Miners in the hoist room at a mine (probably the Checkmate) in the Pearl Mining District, Gem County, ID, Lower left man identified as L.S. Gerlough, later a Rhodes Scholar. Identified by T.D. Gerlough (now of San Francisco) of Squibb & County,...